Pie-pan lifter.



UNITED sTATns raTnNT orrron.

JOSEPH RAY, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

PIE-PAN LIFTER.

Specification of Iietters Patent.

Patented Dee. 3, 1907.

Application filed March 2l. 1904, Serial No. 199,138. Renewed October 23 1907.V Serial No'. 398.844.

To alle/710m it may concern:` v

Be 1t known that I, losE'rH RAY, a citizen of UnitedStates, residing at Decatur, in' the county of Macon, State of Illinois, have in-l vented certain new and useful Improvements in Pie-Pan Lifter-s; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enlable others skilled in the art t'o which it ap- 'angles to form the stops 12 and 13.

pertains to 'makeand use the same. l

. This-invention relates to pans and handles therefor,- the object of the invention being to provide a pan having retaining clips or ears,

and a handle adapted for engagement with and disengagement from the pan, a further object ofthe invention being to provide a cheap and simple device that may be readily applled and removed.

' n the drawings forming a portion of this specification and in which like numerals of referenee'indicate similar' parts in the' several views Figure 1 is a detailed perspective View showing the handle disconnected from a pan.

Fig. 2 isl a view showing` the pan with the lhandle connected. 1 Referring now to the drawings, the handle is. formed of a single' piece of heavy spring wire Whidh is bent upon itself to form parallel members 5 and 6 having' a connecting bight' 7, and at the ends of which members 5 and 6, the Wire is bent into arc sha-pe as shown at 8 and 9. At the ends of the arc shaped por- `tions 8 and 9 the wire is bent downwardly at obtuse angles, is then bent forwardly at right angles to form the parallel members 10 and 11, and is finally turned upwardly at right The plate to which this handle is appliedis shown at and at diametricall;T opposite points of the rim 16 thereof are formed radiating ears 17 which are bent downwardly as shown VVhen'the handle is to be applied to the pan, the grasping portion between the members 5 and 6 1s grasped and the handle is com- 10 andll limit the sliding movement of the pressed so as to move the portions 10 and 11 toward each other. They are then engaged 4under the flange 16 and with the ears 17, the handle being then released the spring quality of the wire of which itis formed causes the members lO'and 11-to move away from each other and tightly engage the ears or clips, the shoulders or stops at both ends of the portions panwith'respect to said portions 10 and 11,

and the pan 1s held securely. vWith this con- .wire at the ends of said parallel members being bent outwardly 1n arc shape, then downwardly and parallel, then forwardly and parallel at right angles to the downwardly bent portionaand then upwardly at right angles, theparallel and arc shaped members being adapted to spring from the bight.

2. The combination with a pan having an outwardly' directed ilang'e at its upper edge and having clips at diametrically opposite points bent downward from the llange, of a. handle consisting of a single piece of wire bent to form parallel members having a oonnecting bightwhereby'the parallel members may be moved toward and away from each other, said parallel membersv being disposed against the under side of the ange and r in-ovably engaged with the ears, the bent wire. having portionsintermediate its ends and bight curved outwardly, the outwardly directed portions and bight being disposed in a plane higher than the plane of the free ends of thewire.

3. A. pan lifter consisting of a. single piece of wire bent upon itself to form spaced members, said spaced members comprising parallel portions, portions curved outwardly from said parallel portions and having their terminals lying outwardly of the said parallel portions and turned downwardly and thence forwardly to form other parallel' portions lying in a plane parallel to the plane occu- )ied by the first-named parallel portions, said last-'named parallel portions having their ends turned upwardly at right angles to the said portion.

In testimony whereof I hereunto sign my name in the presence. of two subscribing witnesses on the 19th day of January 1904.

J OSEPH RAY.

Witnesses C. W. MARTINE.

J. M GRA'Y. 

